Slashdot Mirror
Announcing Slashdot Subscriptions
To understand why the system works like it does, you need to first understand that Slashdot is about to start accepting new ad formats. The large ads that you see on many other sites are coming here. We really don't have an option: these are what advertisers want, and if we don't provide them, we won't be around much longer. But we want to give you an option to see Slashdot without these ads. Second, you need to understand that Slashdot readers fall into a variety of types, and charging the same flat fee just isn't possible.
Slashdot subscriptions will essentially let you buy a thousand pages to be viewed without banner ads. And you will have some flexibility to decide what types of pages (Comments, Articles, The Homepage) you want ads removed from, and what types of pages you just want to see the ads.
The rates are currently set at $5 per 1000 pages. To put this into perspective, $20 (typical magazine subscription) will be enough pages for 82% of our readers to view Slashdot without ads for a year. Another 15% will need to spend $5 a month to accomplish the same thing. 3% of our readers would need to spend more than $5 a month- but they could choose to see ads on comments and in almost every case, still pay around $5 a month. (As an aside, it's also worth noting that more than half of all comment posters fall into this 3%)
We realize that this system is more complex, but Slashdot has a third of a million readers per day with different reading habits, and this is the best way to accomodate everyone fairly.
Currently we only accept payment via paypal. It was simply easy and fast. We intend to offer other options as time permits and readers request.
Eventually we intend to offer additional features to subscribers. Exactly what those plums are remains to be decided: Access to the rejected submissions bin? A 'Gold Star' in your comments header? Karma? (I think that would be hilarious) We really don't know. We'll decide and implement what makes sense as we have time to do it.
We are doing our best to learn from the mistakes made by other sites that have started charging for subscriptions. We won't create subscriber only features that cost more to maintain than they generate. But we do need support from you if we are to continue. So anyway, here's that link again if you forgot it ;)
It's called junkbuster
Hey, let's get a list of places we can move going.
I'd rather have someone respond than be modded up.
Slashdot to offer a subscription service.
Imminent Death of the Net Predicted. Film at 11.
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Whatever... all the money is going straight to the wedding pot. Don't let Taco fool you. He just wants to have a good wedding...
registered users get first post rights?
I think the world will be a better place when this shit can of a website is dead.
When does the hardware get auctioned off? I'm going to install windows 2000 on everything I can!
> Eventually we intend to offer additional features to subscribers.
How about quality ?
Your baby went corporate, and became a whore. Now she's been around the block, and nobody's going to shell out cash when they know she puts out for free.
I'll go bathe now.
This announcement should have been held off for another 31 days. While the ./ sub announcement is serious, the ensuing hilarity from posting this on April 1st would have been priceless.
"Remember, any tool can be the right tool." -- Red Green
You could always keep it on sourceforge, just for the whole irony thing. "How to steal money from OSDN. Hosted by the good folk at...um...OSDN..."
do not read this line twice.
OK, OK, I'll write a "click the banners" perl script too, so they can buy some bandwidth.
Dude, what Taco needs to do to raise money is to sell a "License to Troll." Basically, you pay X dollars a month, and get to post Y troll posts at Score 1 without fear of consequences.
A bad idea? Hell yeah. But it would probably raise a ton of money.
Steve
This makes the term "Karma whoring" a lot more precise, no?
I could not justify my existence if I were a turkey farmer. Would I terminate myself? Undoubtably, yes.
Just My $.02
Don't you mean 'Just My 4 pages'?
Just sell low UIDs.
/. would be fun....
How much for UID of 0?
Being root on
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
Let's be real, have you ever really clicked on any Slashdot ad with the exception of ThinkGeek ads?
I have never understood a thing about karma (much like in real life...)
I had some then it went away. I don't know why and I don't much care...
realkiwi
Let's all do our part!
Vacuum cleaners suck. Kings rule.
Hmm, we seem to have Slashdotted this site. I've setup a mirror here
They listed it as item # 666
nice move. kinda like the price for the original apples.
And yes, of course I paid. I don't use linux, and am a MS guy, myself, so I'm used to paying for things. Hello, you need money? Have a large sum of cash. I get used to it.
Bingo!
Pants are still optional, but recommended for you.
I wasted all my moderator points in modding down their posts to Trolling, but some asshole moderator modded them all up.. Aaarrgghh!!!
Seriously, I'll pony up some cash just to keep him off the site! Just like Mariah Carey! I'll pay to not listen to techno-troll!
my $.02, or maybe $5, who can tell these days!
hey, I only do it for the money.
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A one week old Grilled American Cheese on White.
Best Slashdot Co
actually the new flash type ads like yahoo does do in fact work. In fact, just yesterday i was using news.yahoo.com and suddenly half the page ripped open and a snickers bar appeared. Feeling some heavy hunger pains, i immediately went to my local vending machine and got a twix bar, because frankly i'm not a big fan of snickers, but it half worked at least!
I don't like large ads, i like these interactive flash type ads that yahoo is doing though..It more closely resembles the crash television commercialism i've been brought up on!
security through obscurity = modding down anti-linux posts so maybe noone will see them
What about changing that idea around?
Free 100 pages to a person for submitting an article?
Submitted news is the livelihood of slashdot, and it helps out some of us that have submitted a lot of published articles.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
The above reference may be too obscure for anyone to recognize, but heh I may be suprised.
I'm the big fish in the big pond bitch.
Now taking bids on #2512 w/ 49 Karma points.
:-)
Co-founder and designer at Music Nearby: http://musicnearby.com
Done something like "When we reach 20,000 in pledges, we'll fire Jon Katz."
Think of the possibilities of a worm that did this with your Pay Pal account. Dot Com days would be back again!
From: J. Nagle
Over the last few years, I have posted 1700 comments to Slashdot. (Current karma: 162)
I do not authorize the unpaid use of my copyrighted materials on the pay sites of others. Please remove all my previous comments before your site becomes a pay site. Failure to do so will be considered a copyright violation.
John Nagle
Menlo Park, CA
That's easy, get married. You'll see what I mean.
WTF? Over?
On this thread!
provide value through my contributions...
Yeah, cause all your contributions have been so incredibly valuable already.
I suggest you go download Slashcode or Scoop and open up your own blog, where there are no banner ads whatsoever, no one will ever have to pay a subscription, and life is perfect. Two years later you might have more of an appreciation for what Taco and company have accomplished here.
The web ain't free anymore, and no matter how much people like you will cry and scream about it, it's a fact of life. Places like Slashdot can't stay afloat unless they're being paid by users, or being paid by advertisers. Advertisers expect people to look at their ads, so if your blocking, your doing Slashdot a disservice, period.
It hurts when I pee.
I wasn't trying to suggest anyone is "obligated" to viewing advertisements. Obviously even catching a glimpse of any advertisement would automatically transform you into a corporate drone, and strip away your precious self-proclaimed title of Underground Renegade Freedom Fighter Against Corporate Machinos. Please allow me to play a Rage Against the Machine MP3 in your honor as penance.
Jesus, why is it so evil just to ignore the ads? Do you go through a newspaper or a magazine before you read it and rip out every ad, just in case your free will is somehow subjegated to Corporate Greed? Do you refuse to watch any TV "live" just because you can't stand the thought of wasting 30 seconds of your life?
Yeah, I know, "I do it because I can". Well yay for you I guess.
It hurts when I pee.
People are posting to visit http://www.kuro5hin.org/ as an alternative to Slashdot. Here was the first story when I visited there today:
Female Circumcision - Basic Information
I think I'll be sticking with Slashdot..
"TK-421, why aren't you at your post?"
You mean Slashdot has ads? I never would have known if I hadn't read this article.
simple enough i'll block your stupid ads.
oh sure its ok to block the ads everywhere else.
but slashdot is somehow "special" or "different" than those other websites right?
i don't fucking thing so.
you ads get blocked like everyone else.
contrary to popular beleif you are not special.
you are a just a two bit internet swindler like the rest of the dotcoms.
the internet was so much better before all you greedy assholes showed up.